that the media is brainwashing everyone to think that Islam is trying to oppress women,
etc. where in fact it preaches the opposite. You also get the muslim extremists who
try to force Islam to the world, but like I said they are the extremists. I think we muslims
should speak louder to the world, and its happening but no one is listening. Take the
Israeli attack on the flotilla for example, there were a lot of happenings that the media
havent included. If the people in the flotilla were armed then why is it that there was no
Israeli soldier killed? That is just one example. Many people believe Islam = Terrorism
when in fact Islam is peace. That's why whenever I get the opportunity I tell people to
look in to the Quran and tafseer before saying that Islam is terrorism.
When a person has a religion, be it Islam or anything else, how do other people know what religion this person has? Aren't there several ways that people can know?
One of the ways that people know is that the person says he belongs to a particular religion. The person might be a Muslim. People know that he is a Muslim, because he says, "I am a Muslim."
A second way might be that he unites with other people who say that they are of a particular religion. A person who says that he is Muslim does this by uniting with other people who say they are Muslims.
A third way might be that they all follow and do the things directed by some religious writings... like the Quran for Muslims.
Now imagine that there was a second group of people who called themselves Muslims and said they believed in Islam. But they also said that the Quran was not the holy book of Islam - they had some other writings. They said that Muslims had to have a queen, and that women all over were to be worshiped. And they said that Trees were Allah, jointly, in spirit, and were to be worshiped and prayed to.
Would this second group be Muslim? Would they be Islamic? Should they be allowed to live as Muslims in the world along with the Muslims that we know today? Would there not be animosity between the two kinds of Muslims, and even war?
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1. A person says he is Muslim.
2. He unites himself with other people who say they are Muslims.
3. They all follow the religious writings of a holy book.
If Muslims only follow some of the holy writings but not all of them, are they still Muslims? Are they still Islamic? Well, yes, they are still Muslims, but weak ones.
The point is, now you have to decide who is following the writings of Islam better. Is it the terrorists? Or is it the peaceful Muslims.
The terrorists follow what the Quran and Hadiths say. The peaceful Muslims follow what they would like it to say, and they twist it all out of shape to make it say what they want it to say.
Which group of Muslims is going to win? The terrorist group, of course. Why? Because the peaceful Muslims are too peaceful to stand up against the terrorists. If they do, they become terrorists themselves, just by fighting off the terrorists.
Islam will always be terrorists. Weak Islam might have peace for a time. Even though the terrorists make their mistakes just like everybody, it is the Islamic holy books that give their blessing to the terrorists rather than to the peaceful Muslims.